> It resulted in a strategy where some teams have hired puffer people with the only purpose to have poor performance ratings assigned to them and let them go wh

> It resulted in a strategy where some teams have hired puffer people with the only purpose to have poor performance ratings assigned to them and let them go when the demand for such inevitably rose for such from HR. Those people are known as "sacrificial lambs." I ran across the term in a previous position. More than one person specifically included this concept in their planning.